 | David Brewster - 1855 - 592 páginas
...myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." i The following aneedote is recorded by Condnitt, as showing Sir Isaac's... | |
 | 1855 - 554 páginas
...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers — to those... | |
 | 1855 - 616 páginas
...have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — Dr. T. Dick. BIOGRAPHY. MR. JOHN KETLEY, OF ERBISTOCK. MB. JOHN KETLEY... | |
 | 1856 - 602 páginas
...myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." His body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, was buried in Westminster... | |
 | 1847 - 900 páginas
...myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." A further stimulus to the constant increase of our stores of knowledge lies... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1857 - 350 páginas
...myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' And yet these 'smoother pebbles' which he had found, were the laws of... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1858 - 442 páginas
...myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."f—R* Additionsfram MS. B. reader the following beautiful passage from... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 144 páginas
...myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." "He was generous and charitable" says Mr. Conduitt, "without bounds :... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 158 páginas
...myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." "He was generous and charitable" says Mr. Conduitt, "without bounds :... | |
 | 1858 - 782 páginas
...myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." How touching is this sense of humility, and contrast of the littleness... | |
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I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth... 
